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| REGISTER | AASCU’s Annual Meeting | |||
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Register for the Annual Meeting scheduled for November 21-23, 2010 in Charleston, South Carolina. Featured speakers include Donna Brazile, political strategist and news commentator; David Gergen, editor-at-large, U.S. News & World Report and senior political analyst, CNN; President-to-Presidents lecturer Freeman A. Hrabowski III, president, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. For complete program and registration information go here. |
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| READ | AASCU Receives Learn and Serve America Grant | |||
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AASCU has received a $433,874 Learn and Serve America Higher Education grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service to design and implement a new civic minor in urban education. The minor will integrate K-12 service-learning experiences with urban public policy coursework, offering pre-service teachers and other undergraduates a coherent understanding of the larger context of urban education. Read more |
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| CELEBRATE | California State University Fresno Featured | |||
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California State University Fresno is featured on the Founding Celebrations page. The university is celebrating 100 years evolving from modest beginnings as a teachers college early in the 20th century into an acclaimed, culturally diverse, 21st century university offering educational opportunities through eight schools and colleges. Read more |
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| Connecticut State University System Encourages Middle School Students to Take Steps to Prepare for College |
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The Connecticut State University System (CSUS), which includes Central, Eastern, Southern and Western Connecticut State Universities, has collaborated on a series of activity pages for middle school classroom use aimed at encouraging students to begin taking the steps necessary to prepare for college. The series, called “Middle School Steps 2 College,” includes a variety of interactive activities, key facts and discussion points, suggested ways to learn more about college preparation, and suggestions on how to use available resources at home, school and in the community. Read more |
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| Environmental Groups Join Forces at Kent State University at Stark to Protect and Educate on Local Water Issues |
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For the first time in Stark County, 23 community organizations that all have a stake in the region’s environmental welfare have been collaborating as a result of efforts by the Hoover Initiative in Environmental Media at Kent State University at Stark. Although each group was already involved in learning about and working for the environment, it was apparent to Kent State Start project coordinators that working together and supporting one another, rather than overlapping or competing, would be the most beneficial approach to protect the environment. Read more |
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| University of Central Florida Study to Examine Rising Sea Level's Impact on Estuaries, Coastal Communities |
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A new University of Central Florida study will examine how rising sea level’s could harm estuaries and coastal communities along the Florida Panhandle and Alabama and Mississippi coasts. The research, led by Scott C. Hagen, an associate professor of Civil Engineering, is a response to scientific studies that show sea level is rising along most of the U.S. coasts. Read more |
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| GRANTS AND GIFTS | ||||
| Bluefield State College | ||||
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The Student Support Services (SSS) program at Bluefield State College will receive federal funding for a five-year cycle, beginning September 1, 2010. The grant renewal, from the U.S. Department of Education, will exceed $368,000 and will permi BSC to continue to offer educational assistance to economically disadvantaged and/or first-generation college students, and students with a physical or learning disability. Read more |
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| California State University | ||||
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The California State University has received $62 million through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 to support roughly 200 individual projects on 22 campuses, focused primarily on outreach, teaching and research efforts in health, science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Read more |
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| California State University, Dominguez Hills | ||||
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| California State University, Fresno | ||||
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The College of Arts and Humanities at California State University, Fresno has received a $1 million endowment to support the new Center for Creativity and the Arts. The center will introduce interdisciplinary, university-wide thematic exhibitions involving all of the school and colleges at Fresno State. As a gallery, lecture hall, performance space and school and community organization, the Center for Creativity and the Arts will focus on its vision of academic enrichment. Read more |
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| California State University Monterey Bay | ||||
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California State University, Monterey Bay will receive $1.27 million from the federal government to help low-income and first-generation college students and students with disabilities complete their education. Each year for five years, 160 incoming freshmen will benefit from the grant through academic advising, mentoring, financial assistance and special services to help them stay in school. Read more |
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| Georgia College and State University | ||||
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Two Georgia College professors have been awarded $74,821 from the National Science Foundation, Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program. Victoria Deneroff and Rosalie Richards will use the funds to support one-year of planning to improve the quality of teaching and learning in rural, middle Georgia middle schools. Read more |
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| Northern Arizona University | ||||
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| South Dakota School of Mines and Technology | ||||
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South Dakota School of Mines and Technology researchers were awarded $35,333,111 million dollars in research and development funding during Fiscal Year 2010, the highest amount in the history of the university. Read more |
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| Tarleton State University | ||||
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Tarleton State University’s Rural Law Enforcement (RLE) project recently received a huge boost in the form of $1.5 million in federal funds allocated to the program. RLE is designed to provide rural agencies with access to a secure database that allows those affiliated with the program to share information about crimes, criminals and illegal activities. Read more |
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| Texas Woman’s University | ||||
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Texas Woman’s University has been awarded a $744,422 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) through the newly enacted Affordable Care Act of 2010. TWU will use the funds to expand its weekend nursing program in Dallas. Read more |
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| University of Houston-Clear Lake | ||||
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University of Houston-Clear Lake received the following grants and gifts:
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| University of Northern Colorado | ||||
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A national leader in the field of teacher education, the University of Northern Colorado recently received a $1.2 million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation to support and prepare math and science teachers to serve in high-need school districts, especially in rural areas. Read more |
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| AWARDS AND HONORS | ||||
| University of Houston-Clear Lake | ||||
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| University of Texas-Pan American | ||||
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For the second consecutive year, six faculty members from The University of Texas-Pan American were recognized with The University of Texas System’s Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Awards for their innovative teaching methods in the classroom. Read more |
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| SPOTLIGHT | ||||
| Louisiana Tech University | ||||
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The College of Education at Louisiana Tech University has produced two of the state’s 2011 Teachers of the Year. Jenny Marie Blalock, a first-grade teacher at A.E. Phillips Laboratory School, was named the 2011 Louisiana Elementary School Teacher of the Year and Julie Bartlett Stephenson, an AP English teacher at Ruston High School, was named the 2011 Louisiana High School Teacher of the Year. Read more |
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| Northern Arizona University | ||||
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| Northwest Missouri State University | ||||
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| Richard Stockton College of New Jersey | ||||
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Researchers will admit that it is a difficult task to mentally visualize the complex problems that they investigate each day. This visualization obstacle has been solved by Dr. Russell Manson and his colleagues at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. Dr. Manson has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) major research instrumentation grant to bring a GeoDome to Stockton College. The GeoDome provides an environment to present simulations and visualizations for research. Read more (pdf) |
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| Southeast Missouri State University | ||||
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The Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Southeast Missouri State University was selected to deliver a presentation at the University Economic Development Association (UEDA) Annual Summit set for Nov. 7-9 in Reno, Nev. The presentation is “Driving the “E-Ship”: Effective Techniques for Implementing Entrepreneurial Programs.” Read more |
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| Troy University | ||||
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Troy University’s Center for International Business and Economic Development is offering government contracting assistance to businesses in the Phenix City area. The Center, through its Small Business Development Center, operates the TROY Procurement Technical Assistance Center in Phenix City. Read more |
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| University of Houston-Clear Lake | ||||
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Pearland, Texas residents will have more educational options with the addition of a university inside their city limits when University of Houston-Clear Lake Pearland Campus, which began offering classes in the new facility during fall 2010. Read more |
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Members of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) work to extend higher education to all citizens. Access is a hallmark of AASCU institutions, colleges and universities that embrace students who traditionally have been underrepresented in higher education as well as those who are first generation college students. By Delivering America's Promise, these institutions fulfill the expectations of a public university by working for the public good through education and engagement, thereby improving the lives of people in their community, their region and their state.
AASCU represents more than 400 public colleges, universities and systems of higher education throughout the United States and its territories. AASCU schools enroll more than three million students or 55 percent of the enrollment at all public four-year institutions.
AASCU institutions enroll nearly 3.5 million students, representing more than half of all students enrolled in the nation’s public four-year institutions. AASCU member institutions award more than one-third of the nation’s bachelor’s degrees, more than one-quarter of its master’s degrees, and educate the majority of undergraduate students seeking careers in education.